So once again I was told by some lady that by allowing my child to read Harry Potter I was leading them towards anti Islamic beliefs.
OK, this is totally weird. If we begin to argue, half the stuff they will learn in school may be unIslamic to some but children but I think kids should read a variety of books and Harry Potter for one is a well written classic that will help my child to increase her vocabulary and comprehension skills. Yes she is 6 but she can read a lot of it.
Re: What is anti-Islamic about your kid reading Harry Potter?
First of all - you need to put the lady in a cage.
Second of all - books are great. For vocab, for building imagination, for exposure to things that you that your kid may not see in her lifetime. For her to be sucessful in life - she needs exposure to different thoughts and the more knowledge she has it's good for her.
What is she scared of? that your child will learn "wicca" - well Quran also has references to magic. There are islamic books written about it.
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Haha, we can't put her in the cage. She's a nice lady, very helpful and generous, but so very judgemental. Of course, her comments don't "bother" me but sometimes I like to know where she's coming from.
Re: What is anti-Islamic about your kid reading Harry Potter?
Some people are just scared - scared of anything different, or american, or challenging.
They want their kids to do "jee jee acha acha" all the time. They are really afraid of envoking emotions or questions in them that they have no answers for.
Harry Potter is fiction - most 6 year old get that. For her she doens't want a poster size version on harry (boy toy) in her daughter's bedroom or something.
As muslims - we are restricted from so much in this society. As girls even more. I think I would turn my children into deprieved souls if I took their fiction away from them.
P.S - my mom let me read romance novels but I couldn't have a boyfriend :)
She thinks it makes children think of stuff that isn't real or possible.
tell her about this Tribe in prophet's days called Kharaafa who was famous for story telling. I dont remember anywhere that they were stopped from doing that by Prophet or Sahaba ...
People just have too much time in their hand to come up with self made fatwas
Re: What is anti-Islamic about your kid reading Harry Potter?
maybe she meant that the books are about magic and witches i.e. kala ilm (black magic) which is probably prohibited, i’m not sure. But if that’s the case there are so many children books in Pakistan about witches and wizards and magic spells etc. I don’t know some people and their logic. Like some one once told me not to eat the pink candy from starbursts, orange, red and other are fine.
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I think its mostly about the magic that makes it frowned upon...but childhood SHOULD be filled with magic - peter pan, mary poppins etc etc....theres no evil there. Well maybe there is,..a bit but its always defeated by GOOD, yeah?
I mean, if you really wanna get into it, you can find evil anywhere you look - in any fairy tale, in any regular neighborhood, in any school textbook, ANYWHERE. The thing is to teach kids the difference between good and evil, whether magic or not. Thats all that matters. REally. And I am SO thankful that my childhood included a bit of magic in it.
Re: What is anti-Islamic about your kid reading Harry Potter?
People who are narrow-minded and ignorant ban books like these. How silly to be afraid of a book that inspires loyalty, courage, and honesty. And it's fun!
